The Challenge

Name: The Challenge
Released: 1962-03-28
Rating: 7.4

7.4 (5) 1h 29m 1962CrimeAction

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.